ll i L J VOL 42, HLOOMSIWRG, PA., THURSDAY MARCH 7, tgo7. A;a 9. X I J I ADDING NEW ACCOUNTS AT THE Farmers National Bank. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $150,000. We are constantly adding new accounts and our business is increasing at a very satisfactory rate. If you have not al- ready opened an account with us, we invite you to do so now. In Point of Business Success and Financial Strength this Bank Occupies Front Rank. C. M. C REVELING, Pres. M. MILLEISEN. Cashier. MbHENRY sworn in. Hit Family Will Not Mve to Washington. Congressman -elect John G. Mc Henry went to Washington on Monday to be sworn into office as a member of tbc house of representa tives. On Monday all newly elected congressmen were sworn into office. Congress then adjourned for this session, and the new members will accordingly not take their seat" until the next session in December, unless a special session should be called before that time. It is not the inteniion of Mr. Mc Hcnry's family to go to Washing ton to reside when congress opens next winter. While many of the congressmen and senators take their families to the national capital and make their residence there Mrs. McIIenry and son will remain at their home in Benton, preferring not to make the change to Wash ington. COUNTY BONDS. On Saturday the county commis sioners amended their former reso lution providing for the issue of $30,000 in bonds, to pay off other bonds now due, and the floating indebtedness, and reduced the issue to $21,700. The bouds were sold at auction at the court house on Saturday, to the following pcrsous, at prices named : 9 bonds numbered from 1 to 9 each $200.00 due March 1, 1909. One bond sold to Catherine House for $101.19; three bonds sold to Fred Ikeler lor $101.19 each. The rate quoted for bouds of over $100,00 is the price per hundred dollars. 1 1 bonds numbered 10 to 21, each $200.00 due March i, 1910. Lot sold to Fred Ikeler for $toi.oo each $100.00. 11 bonds numbered 22 to 32, each $200.00 due March 1, 191 1 . Lot sold to C F. Girton lor $101.11 each. 13 bonds numbered lrom 32 to 45, each $200.00 due March 1, 1912. Lot sold to M. McIIenry & Son for $101.00 each. 12 bonds numbered 46 to 57, each $200.00 due March 1, 1913. Lot sold to Charles Mendenhall for $101. oc each. 4 bonds numbered 58 to 61 , each 200.00 due March 1. igu- Lot sold to Fred Ikeler for '$ 1 o 1 . So each. 3 bonds numbered 62 to 64, each $500, due March 1, 1814. Lot sold to M. McIIewy & Son for $iot.oo each. 5 bonds numbered 65 to 69 each $500, due March 2, 1915. Lot sold to Kugeue Carpenter for $101.25 each. 5 bouds numbered 70 to 74 each $500, due March 1, 1916. Lot sold to A. Z. Schoch tor $101.25 each. 3 bonds numbered 75 to 77, each $1000, due March 1, 1 91 7. Lot sold to B. F. Redline for $101.30 each. DISINFECTANT NEEDED. When the sewer backed up into the cellar of the Dentler building a force of men was put at work by the town pumping the water out. It was thrown out on the surface cf the old Philips lot. The town au thorities do not want to lose sight of the fact that a disinfectant should be liberally used just as soon as the weather shows any sigrs of growing warmer. If this is not done the sewerage lying on the surface, ex posed to the sun's rays, is liable to spread all kinds of disease. THE "HIGHER LAW." In a sensational criminal trial at Culj.eper, Va., the presiding Judge one Harrison, made a statement of his interpretation of the unwritten or "higher law" which must have made the Virginians gasp who, with other people in this recent time, havvi no doubt been hearing so much about various kinds of laws not in the statutes that they have come to accept them. The brothers Strother forced one Bywaters to marry their sister, and then when Bywaters was on the point of leaving the house after the ceremony the brothers, deeming Bywaters to he negligent or indif ferent, shot him to death. The hypothetical question asked by counsel for the defense embodied, of course, an "emotional insanity" clause, and in addition made a ref erence to the "unwritten law." "Whit's that?" asked the Judge, "The unwritten law?' It is not used in this court." The Judge's further remarks should be circula ted: "I cannot let the occasion pass without saying emphatically that no such law is known to the courts of this Commonwealth, if by such law it is ineaut that a person can take the law in his own hand and right his wrong, however great the wrong suffered by him may be. "Provocation, however great, cannot justify or excuse homicide by a responsible person. It can only be considered in mitigation of the offense. Under certain circum stances, it will reduce murder to manslaughter, but never justify an acquittal. "Every rational person must seek redress for wrong through the law and leave his vengeance to his God." The Judge ought to have a monument erected to bis common sense. This unwritten and all forms of the higher law are the ex cuses for lawlessness and lynch law. The framers of the higher law are the harebrained persons who lortn mobs; those who admin ister and execute the processes are people who have some criminal or illegal intent; and the judges tn this jurisdictiou are the mooustruct or irresponsible elements in every community who are not amenable to the law of the land and of com mon sense. Phila. Record. ABOUT THE SEWERS. There is entirely too much care lessness among householders in per mitting things to go in the sewers that ought not to be there. The sewer is not intended to be a gener al drainage system for the town. Unfortunately the main on Main street is not half as large as it ought to be, but it would answer for a time yet, if it were not per mitted to be blocked by foreign substances. The time is not far distant when larger mains will have to be laid. "gone westT Arthur W. Sharpless, J. II. Cole man, W. L. Demaree and Lloyd B. Skeer left on Tuesday for Cali fornia on a business and pleasure trip. Tbey will visit the Gold Crater mining property at Souora, and also the Yucca mines in Ari zona. . PANAMA ILLUSTRATED- The last lecture in the Normal School Course will be given by Dr. Kdward Burton McDowell, on March urh. It is profusely illus trated by motion pictures and lan tern slides. It is highly spoken of ry the press. Tickets 50 cents. COMPTROLLER'S CALL. REPORT OK THE CONDITION OF 0e Qi5foom06urg (Uanonaf ffanft At the Close of Business January 26th, 1907. . RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and Invest- Capital Stock, - $100,000.00 meets . 221.28 Surplus and Profits 41.761. 12 Circulation - - 100,000.00 8,000.00 I.ank Deposits - n."99'7 78,564.26 Individual Deposits 368,227.25 Furnitureand Fix tures Cash and Reserve $621,787.54 $621,-87.54 Wm. II. Hidlay, Cashier. A. Z. Sciiocii, President. COMMISSIONS AND GRAtT. Ours is an ideal government, and was so modeled and designed by our lathers, who created it, and consecrated it with their blood, that their prosterity might have peace, liberty and prosperity, with equal rights to all the Iruits of thei - pro duction. But passing years have changed the principles cf men, and the customs of former times. The garb of integrity has been laid asid.e and deceit and intrigue seem to clothe so large a portion ot both public and private business. It seems that the people bow the knee to the gods of corruption and thus corruption reigns supreme in public life. But if the principles of truth and honesty were as scru piously observed and practiced by public officials and corporations, as the principles of rascality anil cor ruption are sought after, and delib er itely practiced, our statute books would be tilled with a code of laws over which the people of our state would rejoice with thanksgiving and gladness. "A square deal with every person" would iethe inevi table results. The people would not petition the legislature against passing ob noxious and corrupt measures, which, continually press for prece dence, nor petition for the repeal of already existing obnoxious laws that menace th peace and prosper ity of our people. The whole body politic has be come leprous with parasites, scabs, sores, ulcers and cancers tbat eat out the rights, liberties and sub stance of our p;ople. But these are the natural fruits of corruption which hauut every remaining trace of civic righteousness, with the ob ject of overwhelming all good, with degeneracy ultimately. The rank and file of the people irrespective of party, hunger and thirst after civic righteouuess, in every department of governmental affairs, but corporate greed, theft and graft among leading bosses have become so engrossed in their scheming ior plunder, that they have lost all regard for the people's interests, that they violate every ptinciple of justice that affects the welfare of the people. If the political leprous body loathed its disease of leprosy, it could easily b: cured of its leprosy by dipping seven times in the re form river. One dipping does no good as that has been tried. It needs seven dippings and terrible washings besides, to thoroughly cleanse it. Our State government, as origi nally organized was presided over by a governor, whose function it was to simply enforce the laws. There was no bureaus in which to lock up the rights and liberties of the oeoplt-. i hts political leprous body has created a fanatical bureau cracy, granting authority that equals the tyranny of the Czar of Russia. The Health Commission is clothed with authority that ex ceeds constitutional bounds aud powers that the people caunot en dorse, or it usurps authority de structive to personal liberty. This Commission proposes to saddle our public schools with burdens wholly foreign to the principles and object to the founders of our public school system. And if this commission is permitted to execute its designs, as outlined by Dr. Dixon, bis reme dies and cures for stamping out all thv causes of disease, will be a hun dred fold worse than the diseases. And it is a noteworthy fact that the more Dr. Dixon perscribes remidical legislation, the greater is the death rate, and the greater in roads diseases make into the health of the people. Dr. Dixon cannot OUR PROGRESS. The advance made in this coun try during the pst thirty-six years is almost beyond comprehension. Farm lands have increased in value from nine billion dollars to twenty six and a hah' billions. During the same period the value of farm pro ducts has jumped from two billion dollars a year in round numbers to seven billions. The railroad mile age has increased from fifty-two thousand miles in 1870 to two-hundred atu! twenty three thousand miles in 1906. The iron industry has increased from 3,835,000 tons to 25,000,000 tons, and steel from 1,247,000 tons to 2o.023.0oc3 tons. Coal fro:;i -jt, 000,000 tons to 425, 000,000 tons. The industrial growth of the country has been phe nominal. In 1870 there were 252. 000 establishments employing 2. 053,000 hands with a capital of two billion dollars and a total pro duct of $1,232,000,000. Last year over six million hands were em ployed, fourteeq .billion dollars of capital invested and a total product of sevetiteeu billiou dollars. The national banking capital has doub led since iSSo, the bankiug assets have trebled in the same time. Tin savings banks deposits are four times as great as they were twenty five years ago. The uumber of savings bank depositors has increas ed from 2,335.000 to 7,696,000 and the bank clearings have jumped from fifty.-eight billions in 1880 to one hundred and fcrty-two billions in 1905. Ex. Treasurer's Statement for February. The following is the statement of County Treasurer M. II. Rhodes, for the month of February: To cash on hand Feb 1st fl9S7 12 Amt. ree'd during month 521)7 5;t Total fTL'84 65 CR. By amt. paid solicitor f 25 00 " assessors 227 21 " United Uiw Co 58 82 For Coal 61 32 " County Sunt 200 00 " Constables Feb. Term 117 42 " Int. on bonds and coupons 245 45 ' Bonds redeemed t00 00 County auditors 1907 220 20 Auditor's clerk 60 00 Soldier's burials 145 00 " Water Co 81 08 " Sheriff Knt 95 25 " Huntingdon Reformatory 102 20 " Jurors. February term.... 556 90 " Tubbs bridge contract 76 65 " Klwell Feb eleo tick etc.. 139 00 ' Court crier 22 50 " Kt't'ilei' bridgu settlement 271 50 " Stmt oil & unseated laud tax 61 13 " February election 1017 29 " Lin ville stenographer 80 00 ' Sundry persons iiiisct'l.... Vi'M 7S " Cash on band 265 26 Total $7284 65 head off death, nor disease by legis lation or otherwise. The Game aud Fish Commission is another scab upon the body poli tic that is a nuisance at public ex pense, a parasite that seeks to sap the substauce of the farmers by making them pay a dollar license for the privilege ol hunting on their own land. Might as well make them take out a license for the pri vilege of eating at their own tables, or sleeping in their own beds O, fanaticism, where is thy bounds! The Commission on Public Grounds and Buildings have just lately exemplified to the people what' all these commissions are created for. Their very existance is a sign of graft, theft and plunder. A tree is known by its fruits. From none of those commissions will the people reap a single benefit, no more than "men gather figs from thorns," or ' grapes from bramb-i les." J. C Wennbr. . .i.i.i BEN GIDDIi New Advance Styles in Soft and Stiff Hats FOR SPRING. and Colors are in. Eft! GSDDBNQ Clothier, Hatter and Haberdasher. Exchange Hotel, Bloomsburg. ) V: Come in and see us, we'll treat you right. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW FURNITURE? Our assortment of Furniture is so wide that we can hardly fail to please any taste, and we can please many tastes not otherwise pleased because of the dependable quality of our goods. The surest way1 to verify our as sertion is to come to the store in person. , ' '." Drop Side Steel Couches , Complete with mattress ami "pillows, best steel frame and springs Complete $8.00 and 8.75. - V ; .. .,'' ..."'. ' '..M' RUGS ! RUGS ! We are showing an unusual line of kuge floor Hugs. It does not need special expe-' rience to appreciate the values. "We'd like' to have you see them. You will not be sat isfied until you have one of the Kugs in your home. t ,t PRICES TO SUIT ALL. THE LEADER STORE CO., LTD i 1 .: ' ' 4TH AND MARKET STREETS. BLOOMSBURG, PA. is3 'I ' . ! I. "JjllV'ICI? 71Y- 111 JRI)3 Oft)
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